Root: Part IV, Chapter 7

On her next jump, Hasta stumbles across enemies more terrifying than any she’s yet encountered, while Lamm fights his way toward her through another of A.A.’s cunning traps.

For more on this project, please see “This Year a Serial Takes Root.”

7.0 Hasta

After the horror that was the last jump, Frida didn’t want to take point again, so Hasta volunteered to do it herself. The massacre site, it turned out, was a rest stop about forty miles west of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They were less than three hundred fifty miles from Moun…